Search

Anushila Chatterjee and colleagues published a new preprint showing that phage resistance in enterococci leads to reduced antibiotic resistance and reduced mouse gut colonization.

Guy Schleyer and colleagues published a new paper on "in-plaque" mass spec imaging to visualize what happens during (algal) viral infection. Here's the original paper and a blog post on the work.

The 4th annual OSU Viromics Workshop is May 8-10, 2019. The workshop kicks off with a mini-symposium, then introduces students and postdocs (and possibly early career faculty) to the informatics tools available to develop biological underst

Cell Host & Microbe just released a special issue devoted to phages!. This includes four free featured reviews, one of which is this article by Kaitlyn Kortright, Benjamin Chan, Jonathan Koff and Paul Turner of Yale University, where they d

Fernando L. Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have published a new review: Phage Therapy in the Post-Antibiotic Era. Their paper includes a nice timeline of phage therapy history and a beauti

Phages for Global Health has announced a call for applications for its first West Africa Phage Workshop, which will take place July 7 - 20, 2019, at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. Apply now!

Intralytix's phage clinical trial (treating E. coli in IBD patients) at Mt. Sinai hospital has begun! Here's a video interview with two Mt. Sinai doctors involved in the trial

Stephen Wandro and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine have published a new paper on Enterococcus faecium phage evolution. His experiments, which he presented at Kisaco Research's North American Microbiome Congress last week,

Great news for BiomX, a company developing custom phage therapies to treat microbiome-based diseases, which just raised $32 million in series B financing!

This commentary by Jens H. Kuhn and colleagues may convince you to care more about the need for cataloguing viral genomes.

Rob Lavigne at KU Leuven is seeking comments on his new preprint on patents related to phage use in agriculture. Comment under the paper on BioRxiv, or tweet @RobLavigne1!

Carol E. Zhou and colleagues report a new phage annotation pipeline called multiPhATE. Preprint and Github.

Check out this extremely informative Twitter thread by Simon Roux, which breaks down his new preprint on the pervasiveness of Inoviruses. Detect Inoviruses in your own sequence data with this tool (Github). We want to encourage more scienti

A new virome twin study! J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego and colleagues show that virome and microbiome diversity correlate, and in contrast to a prior study, adult twins DO have more similar viromes than unrelated individuals. They suggest that

Dr. Benjamin Chan of Yale University continues his treatment of patients in need with phages. Most recently, his phages were administered to a 26-year-old woman named Ella Balasa from Richmond, Virginia, who traveled to Yale for treatment.

Dr. Ellie Jameson's lab at Warwick University is now offering reproducible, standardized tests to investigate phages as targeted bactericidal agents. Also available: optimized phage methods to investigate interactions with other antimicrobi

Check out our new paper on sourcing phages for compassionate use, which was published in the journal Microbiology Australia last week!

A new NIH funding announcement involving phages: exploratory/developmental research into microbial-based cancer therapy ("Bugs as Drugs"). Excerpt: "Utilizing bacteria, archaebacteria, bacteriophages and other non-virus microorganisms, this

The Perfect Predator came out this week! Expect a lot of new mainstream press for phages over the coming weeks/months! This week has already brought coverage from Wired and People, and tomorrow morning at 9 AM, Steffanie Strathdee and Tom P

The University of Pittsburgh has established the Roger W. Hendrix Fund to honor a giant in the phage field who was lost too soon. Please consider contributing to this endowed fund to support and encourage future generations of scientists an